While romance languages like French and Spanish used to be the norm, Mandarin is exploding in popularity among students and families. As she counts the numbers in Mandarin, 8-year-old Anna McCuistion ...

Families in Lafayette Parish have a new option for language immersion in the fall. The World Languages Academy, a satellite pod of Lafayette Renaissance Charter Academy, will welcome kindergarten and ...

This post was updated May 1 at 10:52 p.m. While most students share gossip in their native languages and with their dearest friends, Leo Kitaen has a different approach. Instead, Kitaen, a first-year ...

Glenwood Elementary is a school divided as it awaits its fate, where some students in the Mandarin dual-language program have been bullied, parents and teachers told the school board Thursday night.

The introduction of the Mandarin Chinese language to East African school curricula signals China’s growing influence in Africa as a global superpower. China has sponsored CIs since 2004 and hundreds ...

Poems, vocabularies, pinyin diagrams and schedules pinned on the wall are all in Chinese. In a classroom decorated with paper lanterns and fai chun — red paper with written blessings hung on doorways ...

John Hersey High School senior Olivia Marunde’s passion for Mandarin was sparked in fourth grade after a grant from the Chinese government brought a pilot language program to her elementary school in ...

The National Alliance on Mental Health is launching a family-to-family support group for Mandarin speakers across Southern California.

A vote to expand a Mandarin program will convert Chapel Hill’s oldest elementary school into a magnet school, will send local students who don’t want to learn the language to other schools and will ...